Can't believe council is planning 'recycling fee'

I CAN'T believe the city council's Labour administration is going to charge people to use the brown bin which we have been made to use by the previous Labour government in an incentive to make us recycle.

All this will do is make many people financially unable to recycle.

Last month Councillor Ranjit Banwait stopped the litter pick, then a few weeks later there is a campaign headed by the Labour mayor and the Derby Telegraph to combat littering.

Littering is a horrible problem. This issue needs to be addressed. On August 3, the Telegraph reported on "Litter louts facing fines after George leads protests on state of city parks". Why not deploy these tactics within the city centre?

It amazes me that my council tax will be increased by 1.99%, when the council is cutting services and making staff redundant.

I wonder if this Labour administration will follow Nottingham's example and start to look at a workplace parking levy as another stream of income.

Comments

It says it all – Labour cannot organise the removal of rubbish. The one thing that affects the vast majority of the public and they cannot manage it without charging twice. This is the real Labour Party.

Trickybrewer makes some good points and I would like to add one. The proposed 'bin tax' will only affect taxpaying people i.e. not those on benefits so it is a particularly devisive tax although Trickybrewer is right that we are already paying through our council tax.
Mr Marsden whilst I agree with his petition does not mention that he is in fact a Tory activist trying to score Conservative points. Once this fact is highlighted the less credible he becomes especially as he thinks that the work place levy is a way forward. Odd that he advocates against the bin tax but is for the parking tax, either way you are hitting the taxpayers of this city.
DerbyVillager highlights what many people will do which will backfire on the Labour Council although I suspect they will fine people who do not recycle. Catch 22.
As for politics I have been reading the UKIP website that is clearly run and aimed at the ordinary person. They seem to talk openly about subjects other parties treat as taboo. There are talked of as a protest party although to me at the moment I would like to see them in power. They offer alternatives that the others don't.

They must sit there in their comfy leather seats, in their nice warm cosy offices thinking very hard indeed..on how to chip away at the hard working decent folk of the community and what will grind them down just a little bit more..oh yes, says one just as time's up and there ready to leave and go get in their nice big fancy cars..lets charge them some extra for what theyr'e already paying for..that should grind em down some more..and tomorrow lets see what else we can think of..what a joke these politicians are..really!!!

Welcome to the absurb and ludicrous nature of the politics of the country we now live in. Tories blame the charges as a daft Labour idea. Labour blame it on the massive cuts inflicted by central government on public services.
And of course they are both equally right in apportioning blame (and equally wrong in their own actions). Of course CUTS to public services will bite somewhere. For all the political posturing and pretending that there are billions of pounds of "waste" that can be saved the vast majority of public employees provide real services or vital support to those services. Cuts of the level proposed can only affect the most vunerable as they rely more on those services.
Paying twice (through council tax then again separately) to have a bin emptied is a cut to services in all but name. Perhaps this is thought to be a lessser evil than, say, cuts to Education or social care? Maybe it is - How would any of us go about cutting education, healthcare, social services etc at a time when poverty is on the rise and people are suffering and therefore demand for those services increasing. It was on the news this morningthat there has been an alarming rise in the number of homeless people living on the streets under arches and in cardboard boxes. This is outrageous in a supposedly civilised country where hundreds of thousands of people still hope to be unwrapping sevral hundreds of pounds worth of ipads and iphones on Christmas morning.
At a local level the ousted Tories accuse Labour of "cuts to services" when at a National level Tories are the source of unprecedented cuts to essential services. At the national level Labour accuse the Tories of cuts when they themselves presided over a massive increase in debt . Oh and the Lib Dems , previously a non entity at all levels have demonstrated clearly that to most politicians power is more more important than principles.
And who suffers..always the ordinary people.. as however it is packaged it is never the rich who suffer the burden.
The last Labour government failed to realise the mess their actions would create. the current government shed crocadile tears about "tough choices" whilst inwardly rejoicing at the dogmatic slashing of services for which this once caring country was proud. And the LibDems have aided and abbeted this and should, at the next election, disappear out of sight for their betrayal of their voters.
Who on earth will come forward and be worthy of our vote? More than ever i suspect the next election we will be voting for the least dangerous rather than anyone we believe in. Sad times and a country failed by its elected leaders of all persuasions.

Theres no need to get too excited over this proposal. It's almost certain to be the policy that gets dropped so that Mr Bayliss can go on (and on and on) about how his council listened to the people of Derby and changed their minds about something that was universally disliked.
Try to think about how the council could possibly implement this fairly and efficiently. It's impossible from any sensible, practical point of view, but it has generated lots of publicity for the council, and will again when it is dropped due to "public demand".